Letter: Honorary authorship in neurosurgical literature: A cross-sectional analysis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2018, Pages E25-E28

  Gadjradj, Pravesh Shankar ^a,b   El Fezzazi, Rabab ^a   Meppelder, Catherina Annina ^a   Rietdijk, Wim Jaap ^a   Matabadal, Nikki Nathalie ^a   Verhemel, Alex ^a   Harhangi, Biswadjiet Sanjay ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROSURGERY; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; WRITING;

EID: 85048639171     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: 15244040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyx525     Document Type: Letter

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